Dumbest Idea Evar?Follow

Ok, so I can come up with some hare-brained schemes; but this one takes the cake.

I was thinking about starting a 5v5 team running with nothing but Shadowstep rogues.

I know what you're thinking...just hear me out.

First, this set up would certainly have the element of surprise. Who would expect 5 sub rogues in an arena match? Many people would be too confused or laughing too hard to react after the first attack, which would go something like so...

5 Shadowstep ambushes on healer all at once.

Followed by 5 vanishes and 5 more ShS Ambs on next clothie or Leather wearer.

5 preps, 5 vanishes, 5 more ShS ambushes.

If all goes ideally, that makes the fight 5v2 seconds into the fight.

I realize this will never work in higher brackets, where Stam and Resil on arena gear would make a ShS ambush laughable. It certainly wont work if the 40sec CD on shadowstep goes live in 2.3.

These problems aside, I'm just wondering how far you guys think a team like this might get.

i would laugh all day if you all got hit by 1 frost nova haha, but ya maybe...it would require a TON of coordination lol

I can't say I haven't thought about something like that. The ambushes would need to be all at once.

Another cool idea would be 5 PoM mages...


But yeah even in higher brackets, 5 ambush crits is probably enough to kill any leather or cloth wearing single target.

I tried this in a 2v2 and it didnt work out so well. I guess because we didnt take the time to get used to it.

Edited, Oct 16th 2007 12:53am by bococho

If you could find 4 other rogues to go along with this, and if you guys were all in Vent to help coordination... you'd wreck house. However, as somebody said above, once frost nova and your whole timing is screwed.

I'm going to have to disagree here. I don't think you guys would get very far at all. You're basically relying on the other team being idiots. You might surprise them and get the first kill, but I highly doubt you'd get anything more than that.

Even with only a 15 second CD on ShS, if you insta-kill the first healer, do you really expect the rest of their team to sit there and do nothing for 10-12 seconds while you wait for your CD? Any team with any AoE CC can easily stop you.

Even if you get 2 down, you've blown all your CDs. A decent team (even with only 3 or 4 members left) is going to be able to handle 5 sub rogues that have blown their CDs. You just have no sustained damage after that initial burst.

Oh, it would fail at anything above a 1500 rating...but it would still be good for some serious laughs. probably fail above 1400 or ever 1300 but hey...it would still be fun to ***** around with.

I suppose you could open with a coordinated full sap of their team, Shadowstep, ambush, vanish and move away before sap breaks.

Then just shadowstep ambush the second target and it becomes a 5v3 quickly and your team JUST might be in a viable position to win. Plus still would be fun as hell.

with the incresed distance on sap you can sap the paladins from outside the aoe range. When I was sub at 49 I would often use sap to deny flags in ab from 5 ppl at once, even pallys.

i saw a video where 2 groups who thought such similar thoughts about their arena 5v5 group.

it just happened by chance that they got matched up versus each other in the arena

one was all healadins and the other all tree of lulz.

LONGEST FIGHT EVER!

i just gave up watching it [too lazy/not bothered to check the end]

should have saved and posted it here..damn :\